Pallavi shared this link.
Daughter are supposed to become paraya dhan once they are given away in kanyadan, and any Indian man and his family would be justified in wanting a divorce if a woman’s parents forget that.
Why I’d worry about any such biased and generalized statements. Because they encourage Indian parents to continue to disown their married daughters. Happily-Married-Daughters bring approval of the neighbours’ uncle’s nephew’s third cousin’s grandfather, so even if a married daughter is unhappy, she is advised to please adjust, or die trying. Having no one to turn to, makes her less equal and exposes her to abuse, exploitation and harassment.
Also, even if the parents were interfering in the case mentioned, it does not mean that this is becoming a trend. The idea that a woman’s parents have no right to support her once she is married, and an adult male needs to be mothered all his life, is changing and this change should be welcomed.
I wonder why there was no mention of ‘parental interference’ in these cases.
Allegations that the mother-in-law kicked the daughter-in-law with her leg, told her that her mother was a liar, poisoned the ears of her son against the daughter in law, had been giving perpetual sermons and threatened her with divorce. [link]
Deciding what an adult son’s adult spouse wears is not interference?
Was this seen as interference?
And just how much do an Indian daughter’s parents interfere for it to have ‘become a major cause for playing havoc’ with their daughter’s marriages?
In Haryana a son beat his wife in the presence of her parents, for wearing jeans when she went shopping with them.
Promptly dispatched to her in-laws house, a paraya dhan‘s rightful home once she is married.
Bollywood went out of it’s way to show loving a married daughter could lead to breaking her marriage.
How would you see this scene from ‘Phagun’ (1973) if Waheeda Rehman was the husband’s mother and not Jaya Bhaduri’s?